BRICS expansion: opportunities and challenges for ASEAN
Monday, March 24, 2025, 13:05 (GMT+7)
Since being founded by Brazil, Russia, India, and China in the early 21st century, BRICS has increasingly strengthened its role as a key driver of global economic growth. The group has garnered attention and aroused desire for membership from the international community, including ASEAN countries
The entire military strives to successfully accomplish the Resolution of the 11th Military Party Congress and military, defence tasks for 2025
Monday, February 10, 2025, 10:46 (GMT+7)
The world and domestic situations present a mix of favourable conditions, opportunities, difficulties, and challenges, posing new demands and heavier responsibilities for the cause of building and defending the Fatherland. To successfully fulfill the tasks of 2025 and the goals and missions set out by the 11th Military Party Congress requires the entire military to strengthen unity and consensus, overcome difficulties, and decisively implement solutions.
Promoting the heroic tradition and glorious career in building a strong Vietnam People's Army to firmly safeguard the socialist Vietnam’s Fatherland
Saturday, December 21, 2024, 18:53 (GMT+7)
It can be affirmed that throughout the 80-year journey of building, fighting, winning and growing up with lots of hardships and sacrifices, our Army has written a heroic tradition, brilliant feats, engraved in the history of the nation with significant milestones. The glorious victories that our Army has achieved are also the victories of our people, our nation, closely linked to the great achievements of the Vietnamese revolution in the Ho Chi Minh era.
The trend of military build-up in Asia - Pacific region
Monday, November 25, 2024, 16:07 (GMT+7)
For many years, especially since the outbreak of Russia - Ukraine conflict in 2022, the trend of military build-up has intensified all over the world, including the Asia - Pacific region. Although it has yet to reach the level of an arms race, this trend has been impacting various aspects of global and regional security and development
Coordination between the General Political Department of the Vietnam People’s Army and the Central Theoretical Council in researching and developing theories on military and national defence
Monday, November 18, 2024, 21:05 (GMT+7)
Thoroughly grasping and strictly implementing President Ho Chi Minh’s viewpoint on the pioneering role of revolutionary theory, our Party has alway paid attention and taken care the work of researching and developing theoretical frameworks, including military and national defence theory, to provide scientific foundations for shaping the Party’s directions, government’s policies and laws in the cause of building and safeguarding the nation throughout various stages of revolution.
US - Japan - Philippines trilateral cooperation and its regional and global impacts
Sunday, September 29, 2024, 20:51 (GMT+7)
Amidst the growing complexity of geopolitical dynamics in the Indo-Pacific region, countries have been promoting cooperation to deal with increasing security threats, with the US - Japan - Philippines trilateral cooperation as a case in point. The context and future of this cooperation mechanism, and its impacts on the region and the world are a matter of international concern
On 2024 NATO Summit
Friday, September 27, 2024, 08:19 (GMT+7)
The 2024 NATO Summit, held in Washington on 9-11 July 2024, reached consensus on many things to guide the development of this military alliance. In the context of fundamental changes in international political and military affairs, the agenda of the Summit has drawn great attention from researchers and international community.
European Union's defence industrial strategy and its impacts on the Asia-Pacific region
Friday, August 23, 2024, 09:46 (GMT+7)
According to international analysts, the EU's Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS) aims to put the defence industry on a wartime footing by fostering cooperation in investment, research, development, production, procurement, and ownership among EU defence contractors. This marks a shift away from the EU's initial emergency responses to the Russia - Ukraine conflict and signifies a long-term commitment to bolstering the defence industry's readiness
Great power competition in Indo-Pacific
Friday, August 16, 2024, 07:58 (GMT+7)
Overall assessment of great powers’ Indo-Pacific strategies reveals that despite their different expression, all great powers put the Indo-Pacific at the heart of global security and interests of each country. Accordingly, strategic competition among great powers in Indo-Pacific is a unique issue characterised by cooperation, deterrence, and containment.
Japan promotes the progress of Indo-Pacific strategy
Monday, July 29, 2024, 16:46 (GMT+7)
In response to the increasingly complex global security environment and cut-throat geopolitical competition, the Japanese government advocates not only strengthening defence capabilities, but also promoting Indo-Pacific strategy with a long-term vision. This new Tokyo-driven motive has drawn deep attention from international public opinion